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Happy Place

How to laugh when you’ve been to hell and back

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.715.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

‘If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry’, as the saying goes. These heightened emotions often sit very close to each other, and there’s a split second where we can decide whether to despair, or to see the funny side of a situation. 

 

Today, Fearne revisits Happy Place conversations that highlight the crossroads where people have decided to cope with shitty incidents by laughing at them, or at themselves.

 

Amongst other guests, Adele Roberts tells the absurd story of what happened to her stoma the night before running the London Marathon, and Dawn French chats about owning the moments you were a bit of a twat.

 

...and for a really good laugh, there are some behind the scenes outtakes as Fearne attempted to record some calming – and unexpectedly erotic – sleepy stories for the Happy Place app...

 

Listen to Fats Timbo’s episode

 

Listen to Adele Roberts’ episode

 

Listen to Dawn French’s episode

 

Listen to Vicky Pattison’s episode

 

Download the Happy Place app


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. Today how to laugh when you've been to Helen back.

0:09.0

My family are absolutely hilarious. The way we go about life, we don't take things too too

0:15.3

seriously and I think that's what I've instilled in my life that don't take life

0:20.8

too seriously because you know we're all going to be dead one day.

0:25.8

So I thought right mashed potato and porridge oats I'll have that the night before and then

0:30.4

I'll be okay and I'll be full of like glycogen ready to run the marathon.

0:34.3

But Audrey didn't digest the porridge and the mashed potato and decided to chuck it out my body at three in the morning.

0:45.0

And I used alcohol as a cotan mechanism, right? And it would be dead easy for us to be like,

0:47.0

oh, but I don't recognize that girl now.

0:49.0

Like I drink green juice and I do 5 a.m.

0:52.0

Your german I give birth to an avocado.

0:54.0

There's a reason for the cliche line if you don't laugh you'll cry.

0:59.0

Those heightened emotions can actually be so close together. It's like when a toddler falls over and

1:05.9

you have those few seconds where everyone holds their breath waiting to see if

1:10.2

they're gonna whack out the tears or a giggle.

1:14.0

I think not taking life too seriously can be a brilliant coping mechanism in otherwise anxious times.

1:22.0

Sometimes I can take life way too seriously and I can get just

1:30.4

really in a funk because I can't see the humour and that is something that I need constant

1:37.2

reminding about. Laughing is just such a brilliant perspective shifter. The rubbish thing has happened regardless. It's up to you to

1:44.8

then choose how to react to the situation. So today loads of brilliant examples of

1:50.8

just that. The crossroads where people have decided to see the

1:54.1

funny side of a situation or of themselves. Fat Timbo explains how humor has

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